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Young Han Solo revealed for 2018 Star Wars spinoff prequel

Film directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller announced at Star Wars Celebration Europe today, that young actor Alden Ehrenreich will play Han Solo in Lucasfilm’s 2018 spinoff prequel movie. According to various online reports, the filmmakers said that they auditioned more than 3,000 actors for the role, before settling on Ehrenreich. Variety reports that filmmaker ….

Does this Walking Dead Season 7 preview poster for San Diego Comic Con 2016 give away upcoming story plot? You be the judge

It’s just about that time of year again. A time when pop culture fanatics journey to San Diego, California for Comic Con International, wait on lines for hours, even days, at a time, all to get a glimpse of their favorite celebrities, filmmakers, comic creators, pop culture writers & artists, streaming personalities, and cosplay icons. ….

Indie feature Elizabeth Blue begins shooting

Principal photography has begun on the independent feature Elizabeth Blue. The film, which stars Anna Schafer, Ryan Vincent, Christopher Ashman, Nicola Lambo, Inger Tudor, Kathleen Quinlan and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje centers on Elizabeth (Schafer) a young woman recently released from a mental hospital while coping with ongoing episodes of Schizophrenia. With the love and support of ….

Conan O’Brien hosting epic Warner Bros. San Diego Comic Con presentation with Will Smith, Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Tom Hiddleston and more

Warner Bros. Pictures will once again commandeer San Diego Comic Con’s Hall H when the Studio’s biggest stars, DC’s best Super Heroes and “worst” Super-Villains, fantastic beasts great and small and more head to this year’s con for one the Studio’s biggest previews ever. On Saturday, July 23, beginning at 11:30 a.m., Warner Bros. will ….

Relativity co-producing military thriller Hunter Killer

Relativity Films has announced that the company will co-produce Hunter Killer starring Gerard Butler, alongside Millennium Pictures. Dana Brunetti and Ryan Kavanaugh are also executive producing the film with producers Neal Moritz and Tobey Jaffe. Donavan Marsh (Avenged, Spud) will direct the action thriller. Peter Craig and Jamie Moss wrote the script based on the ….

Pusher director Nicolas Winding Refn to appear during IFC Center’s “Nordic Noir” thriller screening series

This Friday, IFC Center in New York City will host the screening series “Cold Cases: The Department Q Trilogy and the New Nordic Noir,” a 15-film survey of twenty years of crime films from Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. The series starts this Friday, June 17th and runs through Thursday, June 23rd. Police procedurals, grisly ….

Alien Con to celebrate popular History show Ancient Aliens

This October in Santa Clara, California, fans of History’s Ancient Aliens will have the chance to attend Alien Con, the very first convention devoted to fans of the show, along with sci-fi buffs and pop culture enthusiasts. Cosmic-Con, the event division of Famous Monsters of Filmland Magazine, and History are teaming up to celebrate all ….

Drafthouse Films & Alamo Drafthouse celebrate Indiana Jones’ 35th Anniversary with the greatest fan film ever made

This weekend marks 35 years since the debut of iconic adventure-hungry archaeologist Dr. Henry Walton “Indiana” Jones Jr. in Stephen Spielberg’s cult classic adventure Raiders of the Lost Ark. Drafthouse Films is celebrating with countrywide screenings of their upcoming documentary release Raiders: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made. The film is currently ….

Midnight Release Party planned to celebrate Harry Potter and the Cursed Child release

July 31st marks the official script book release of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – Parts I & II, the theatrical eighth installment of JK Rowling’s best-selling Harry Potter series premiering as a play on London’s West End stage. To celebrate the countdown to the latest chapter of the Harry Potter saga, Books-A-Million is ….

Game of Thrones’ Jack Gleeson to attend New York Comic-Con 2016

Reed Pop has just announced that Game of Thrones’ Jack Gleeson will be making an appearance at New York Comic-Con 2016 on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. No details yet on whether the actor will be hosting a Game of Thrones panel, but the event’s website confirms that Gleeson will be in the autograph area on ….